The joy and strength of success
This vacational writer is back again with another article. If you haven’t read my last article you can do that check it out.
There’s a quote I learnt growing up in Nigeria:
Money makes money
It basically means that if you have money you can easily make more money. I think that also refers to success. With one step landing in success, you are geared to do more.
With VC financing, second-time founders are more likely to get more investor backing compared to first-time founders because they have a reference point.
But more personally, when you put in the work and get something off the ground and it succeeds, the success pushes you to do more and when that also succeeds you feel like you are unstoppable and that’s the energy and strength I am referring to.
Over the weekend I was at a club, where Titom & Yuppe, two Amapiano artist with the hit song Tshwala Bam were playing and at some point Yuppe came down from the stage to the dancing circle and I honestly could fill the joy he had.
This was the thought in my head:
Here are two friends down in Stockholm, Sweden, very far from home in a club, playing their songs with people singing and vibing around them, and these people didn’t even understand what the hell they were ‘singing’.
I mean I also don’t understand the language the song is written in but there I was. Yuppe was in the middle of the dance circle jumping and high on the hype and the vibe he got from people surrounding him that he took off his shirt and I was like this is what the joy of success feels like and the strength you get from it.
I went to their Instagram page later and found the image below and I smiled, far from home in countries that spoke different languages, playing their song in their own language and strangers happy and having a good time. They couldn’t have imagined that when they released the song.
Cultivating an habit of succeeding is important, make a to-do list and tick things off, seek out your wins (small or big), grow your mentality to feed off that energy. Experiencing success in however small or big way strengthens your resilience, thereby fostering a mindset that embraces challenges. A principle to this is the law of attraction and positive thinking; you achieving success sets you up for more success.
In conclusion, we drive ourselves to succeed in our endeavours, and when we do, it kicks us to push for more. It’s the same energy we get by ticking things off our to-do list.
Using that same mindset in our lives, find things that you can succeed in, and when you do, you will have strength to do more.
Last example, this is something that always happens to me in the gym.
I calculate a 2km at the gym is essentially 6 songs, and when I go in for a run, I try to not look at the screen stats too early and sometimes I look at it after the 4th song and sometimes I see 1.45km done and I am like woww, and because I don’t expect to be almost done, I instantly get energised and crank the speed up, knowing I am always done is joyful.
Success begets success, hack it to your advantage.
